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[Pieter Mulder]

Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder File picture

Johannesburg - The reopening of the land claims process and concerns about farm attacks in South Africa were among issues presented to the United Nations Human Rights Commission Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, the FF Plus said.

Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder said the commission's theme for the year was "Preventing and addressing violence and atrocities targeted against minorities".    "It therefore joins up perfectly with the message of the FF Plus about the fate of minorities in South Africa," he said in a statement.

The FF Plus would make four presentations to the UN forum on the topics of farm attacks, land claims, affirmative action and what it called the "dismantling of Afrikaans". On farm attacks, the FF Plus asked for help to address and prevent further attacks on farmers and farm workers, which the minority political party claimed amounted to "genocide".

It urged the forum to "recommend that the UN general secretary initiates a full investigation to pressurise the SA government to immediately implement effective measures to put an end to these atrocities". The FF Plus also told the forum that the re-opening of land claims in South Africa threatened food security, economic growth, and the prosperity to the entire South African nation.

"The ideological political propaganda which seeks to bolster emotional support relies on the misleading myth that based on Histo-Geo-Political facts the white farmers stole the land from black people which is vehemently rejected with the contempt it deserves."

On affirmative action, "our request is that this forum... takes serious note of the attempts by the present South African government to absolutely exclude Afrikaners in South Africa from freely participating in economic activities in the country since 1994". They submit that Afrikaners are a strategic minority contributing to job creation, economic growth and prosperity for the good of the whole of South Africa.

The FF Plus also submitted a presentation in which it claimed that the South African government was trying to "dilute and eventually eradicate Afrikaans-language mother-tongue education for Afrikaans speakers".

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/ff-plus-takes-minority-concerns-to-un-1.1786831

[Look at How Many #Ferguson Area Business Were Looted Last Night, Plus Two Heartbreaking Images]

Look at How Many #Ferguson Area Business Were Looted Last Night, Plus Two Heartbreaking Images

You might remember the Ferguson Market from this now iconic image taken from a surveillance camera just before Michael Brown attacked Officer Darren Wilson:
The picture below is of Natalie DuBose's owner of Cakes and More. Her business was completely destroyed by looters:

Here's a long list of businesses in the Ferguson area that were either looted or burned last night:

St.Louis Fish & Chicken Grill
Family Dollar
Dollar TreeO'Reilly's Auto Parts
Beauty Mart
A.J. & R. Pawn Shop
Walgreens
FedEx
Cakes and More [Natalie DuBose's store]
JC Wireless
AT&T
STL Bread Company
Conoco
Auto Buy Credit
Phillips 66
McDonald's
Red's Barbecue
Taco Bell
CVS
Beauty Town
Little Caesar's
Ferguson Liquor
Public Storage
Sam's Meat Market
Medicine Shop
Commerce Bank
Auto Zone
Toys R Us
Amoco
Quiznos
Dellwood Market
Chop Suey restaurant
TitleMax
Antonio French's Heal Stl Community Center
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/look-at-how-many-ferguson-area-business-were-looted-last-night-plus-two-heartbreaking-images

['You can only trust a dead white man']

Policeman's colleagues complain about WhatsApp status that 'You can only trust a dead white man'
Netwerk24 reports that the police are taking disciplinary steps against a black police sergeant from the dog unit in Pretoria for having indicated on his WhatsApp status "Never Trust the White Man, the only Time you Trust Him is when he is Dead". 

Twelve of Hendric (Muthi) Mthimunye's white colleagues lodged a complaint against him when they saw the status posting on his WhatsApp profile.  Mthimunye's colleagues regard the posting as racist and hate speech.  The complaint reads: "We work daily with him as part of an armed response unit of the police.  We feel that we can't trust a person who makes blatantly racist remarks and promotes hate speech against white people.  As police members we must trust each other and rely on each other for protection in the most unbelievably dangerous situations." (freely translated).  They also believe Mthimunye's words are inappropriate for a policeman and bring the police into disrepute.  Solidarity's Dirk Groenewald, who is handling the matter on behalf of the complainants, said a letter had been sent to Mthimunye's commanding officer in which it was requested that steps be taken against him.  A police provincial spokesman confirmed that Mthimunye's superior was investigating a complaint. 

Mthimunye said the whole matter was a misunderstanding and that he had already sent a letter of apology.

http://www.salabournews.co.za/index.php/home/latest-news/70-labour-news/21760-policemans-colleagues-complain-about-whatsapp-status-that-you-can-only-trust-a-dead-white-man.html

[Americans Rally Across the Country After Ferguson Decision]

Americans Rally Across the Country After Ferguson Decision

Thousands of people rallied late Monday in U.S. cities including Los Angeles and New York to passionately but peacefully protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.

They led marches, waved signs and shouted chants of "hands up, don't shoot," the refrain that has become a rallying cry in protests over police killings across the country.

The most disruptive demonstrations were in St. Louis and Oakland, California, where protesters flooded the lanes of freeways, milling about stopped cars with their hands raised in the air.  

Activists had been planning to protest even before the nighttime announcement that Officer Darren Wilson will not be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/rallies-planned-us-ferguson-decision-27147223

[French anti-racism group SOS Racisme]

The French anti-racism group SOS Racisme marks its 30th anniversary today. Formed in 1984 to tackle racism, the organization still faces many of the challenges that inspired its initial creation, including the alarming rise of the Far Right in France and across Europe. It was a historic march against inequality that led to SOS Racisme's creation 30 years ago.

In 1983, thousands of demonstrators poured out onto France's towns and cities, to vent their anger against the prejudice suffered by the country's North African immigrant population. It was in this explosive racist climate, that the French anti-racist group SOS Racisme sprung to life, adopting the iconic slogan:     "Don't touch my friend,"   featured on a big yellow hands-up sign.   

The youngest of four anti-racism groups in France, the principle of the association is to defend ethnic minorities against discrimination. Thirty years after its creation, its battle is still the same, except now it faces new challenges. Bernadette Hétier, co-president of the MRAP anti-racist movement in Paris, says the danger now is the Front National party, which has capitalized on anti-immigration sentiment.

http://www.english.rfi.fr/africa/20141122-far-right-success-dampens-anti-racist-groups-30th-birthday